LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Tensions simmered across Pakistan between the Muslim majority and Christians following Sunday’s (March 15) deadly gun-and-bomb attacks on two churches and the subsequent killing of two Muslims here. At least 17 people, including two policemen, have succumbed to their injuries from the suicide attacks in Lahore’s Youhanabad area, which targeted […]
Religious Tensions Simmer Across Pakistan following Church Bombings
Christian leaders condemn retaliation killings by furious Christian mobs.
March 16, 2015 By -
Days after Police Brutality in Rajasthan, India, Hindu Extremists Attack in M.P.
Prime minister’s talk of religious freedom rings hollow, Christians say.
March 10, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Days after police tortured 20 Christians in India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan, Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh struck two churches in four days. In central India’s Madhya Pradesh, where a law against forced or fraudulent conversions is routinely invoked to harass Christians – though none has ever been found guilty – members […]
Hindu Extremists Strive to Mortify, Malign Christians in Jharkhand State, India
Accusation of child molestation in one case, tearing of woman’s clothes in another.
February 20, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Hindu extremists in India this month sought to shame and malign Christians, as four women were publicly beaten in one village and a teacher was falsely accused of child molestation in another, sources said. In India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, 11 assailants dragged four Christian women from their prayer meeting […]
Christians Excluded from Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy’ Cases Fast-Tracked for Acquittal
Officials fear 'violent reaction' if they examine cases of non-Muslims.
February 13, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Punjab Province has excluded Christians from a list of people accused without basis of blaspheming Islam who will have their cases expedited for acquittal, sources said. Pointing to several Christians languishing in jail on trumped-up blasphemy charges, Christian rights and political activists say discrimination against religious minorities was behind the selection […]
Police in India Manhandle, Detain Protestors against Anti-Christian Attacks
Free speech muffled as officers quickly force demonstrators onto buses.
February 7, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Delhi police manhandled nuns, priests, lay leaders and human rights activists in temporarily detaining nearly 300 Christian protestors on Thursday (Feb. 5), sources said. More than 1,500 Christians had assembled peacefully at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi as part of a protest march against the targeting of churches […]
Hindu Extremist Mob Beats Christian House Church Leader near Mumbai, India
Welder among first to use new hotline for violence against Christians.
February 5, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Christian welder who oversees a home fellowship near Mumbai is on pain-killers with chest and back injuries after some 25 Hindu extremists on Jan. 24 beat him with iron bars, sources said. Threatening to kill him if he continued preaching and practicing his faith, members of the Hindu extremist […]
Charlie Hebdo Protestors Ransack Christian School in Pakistan, Demand Closure
Security said to be lax just weeks after massacre at school in Peshawar.
January 29, 2015 By -
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Among several protests across Pakistan against a French satire magazine’s cartoons of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, hundreds of Muslims in a terrorist-infested northwestern province on Monday (Jan. 26) stormed a Christian school, demanding its closure. Some 300 protestors from local schools and colleges entered the premises of Panel High School for […]
Prison Time Withdrawn for Pastor in Bhutan Sentenced to Nearly Four Years
Sentence effectively reduced to a fine -- a bailable two years, four months.
January 20, 2015 By -
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Morning Star News) – A court in Bhutan yesterday reduced a sentence of nearly four years in prison to a bailable 28 months for pastor Tandin Wangyal, resulting in the father of three remaining free to attend to his family and ministry. More than 10 months after Pastor Wangyal was arrested for […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2014
For once, good news – miraculous righting of horrific injustice in Sudan – tops list.
January 9, 2015 By -
(Morning Star News) – In a year that saw a new level of cruelty unleashed upon Christians and other religious minorities across Syria, Iraq and Africa, one once obscure case of injustice in Sudan turned into a titanic battle that gripped the world’s attention. The battle appeared to be spiritual as much as legal. 1 – […]
Controversy over ‘Reconversions’ in India Leads to Proposal to Outlaw Conversions
Government also proposes alternative holiday to Christmas.
January 6, 2015 By -
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – A Hindu nationalist drive to “reconvert” non-Hindus over the Christmas season foundered, but protests against the campaign led to an unexpected consequence: a proposal to ban on all conversions except “reconversions” to Hinduism. During an Advent season that saw the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi propose a “Good […]